Civil War Bull Run Demo -- New

[CBR]

CBR-sama, what style of war would you call the Boer War then?

Im not that familiar with the Boer War as I only have a few articles about it. Bur from what I can read it seems to have trenches and longrange firefights involved. Both sides had magazine rifles and used loose order formations AFAIK. So a regular (modern) war that turned into a guerilla war.


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Something else to consider regarding fortifications in the ACW might be these

1. Abundant resources (I think this has been mentioned already)

2. Americans were still a frontier country and very practised in the construction of fortifications. Americans had been building forts to guard the frontier for 200 years prior to the ACW. Western Europe hadn't been considered a "frontier" since probably Roman times (and the Romans were very practised in the art of putting up a fortification.)

3. Not sure about this one, but mass production of the necessary tools could have played a part. The ability to easily supply an army with all the necessary axes, picks and shovels would have made entrenching easier.

I haven't read all the posts, so if I've duplicated anything, my apologies.